Behavioural Interventions

The foundation of a good financial outcome at and in retirement starts with saving sufficient throughout one’s working life, ideally from an early age. However, addressing the inadequacy of retirement provision is one of the biggest socio-economic challenges facing the UK.

The Future Book

The Pensions Policy Institute, commissioned by Columbia Threadneedle Investments, has published a new compendium of DC statistics, "The Future Book", setting out available data on the DC landscape, projections of the future aggregate value of DC assets, commentary and analysis of current trends.

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Following strong performance in 2017, European markets retreated in 2018 – a sell-off that was markedly similar to the 2015-16 downturn, when industrials, miners, banks, commodities and emerging markets plummeted by 30% or more

Immediately following the EU referendum, financial markets downgraded medium-term growth expectations for the UK. Sterling weakened, long-dated government bond yields fell, and UK equity assets fell relative to international equities. Two-and-a- half years on we can see that this weakness has not unwound.